The İstanbul Anatolian 4th Civil Court of First Instance has ruled that defendant Cihan Araçman shall pay 5 million 330 thousand lira in pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages for throwing a chemical substance in a 3-year-old child's face.

Announcing its opinion as to the accusations, the prosecutor’s office has demanded that journalist İdris Sayılğan be penalized on charge of “repeated terror propaganda” over his Facebook posts. He previously served 1,137 days behind bars.

Both the Ağrı Public Prosecutor’s Office and the attorney of Sırrı Sakık have appealed against the prison sentence of 5 years, 10 months given to the politician over a press statement from five years ago.

The association has launched a campaign titled, "You can't manage, we are burning out," calling on the government to increase measures amid a new coronavirus surge.

The Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has reiterated its support for the İstanbul Convention in the face of countries which have opened the convention to debate, including Turkey.

Addressing the Eastern Mediterranean crisis in her annual State of the Union Address, President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has noted that “nothing is justification for Turkey’s attempts to intimidate its neighbors.”

Having reversed its decision to hear two National Intelligence Organization (MİT) officers in the Hrant Dink murder case, the İstanbul 14th Heavy Penal Court has now also reversed its decision to hear MİT İstanbul Chief Ahmet Köksoy.

Health workers are not considered as "Covid-19 contacts" and those who are infected but don't show symptoms are called back to work amid the coronavirus surge in the capital, according to the SES union.

Not given their wages or severance payments for months, the miners from Ermenek, Karaman have decided to march to the capital city of Ankara on October 1 as the negotiations with their employer have achieved no results.

Having distributed leaflets calling on agricultural workers to halt work in protest of their daily wages, the executives of the Precarious Workers’ Association have been detained by the Anti-Terror Branch. A confidentiality order has been issued for their file.

The İstanbul Directorate of Security has requested the finalized detailed rulings on Academics for Peace from the İstanbul 13th Heavy Penal Court. Attorney Kılıç has raised concerns that with this request, the directorate attempts to profile the academics.

Minister Soylu targeted the top court after a decision annulling a law article that allowed the ministry to prohibit demonstrations and protest marches on intercity roads.

Prof. Murat Yılmaz from the COVID-19 Intensive Care Unit of Akdeniz University Hospital says, “If they saw our conditions, I am sure that people would be walking on the street like astronauts, let alone refusing to wear face masks.”

Ministry of Justice has expressed an opinion about the arrest of Osman Kavala upon the request of the Constitutional Court. It has referred to phone conversations between Kavala - Henri Barkey that do not exist in the HTS records as “evidence.”

We have spoken with İstanbul Medical Chamber Chair Prof. Pınar Saip and Ankara Medical Chamber Chair Dr. Ali Karakoç regarding what needs to be done against the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak before it is too late.

This year’s International Hrant Dink Awards have been granted to arrested human rights activist and businessperson Osman Kavala from Turkey and women’s rights advocate Mozn Hassan from Egypt.

The Ministry of Health has announced that Turkey’s coronavirus death toll has risen to 7,186 and the total number of cases to 294,620. 67 people have died of the virus and 1,742 people have tested positive in the last 24 hours.

The Court of Cassation has upheld the prison sentences of all lawyers from the Progressive Lawyers Association (ÇHD), except for four, indicating that “the conscientious conviction has been based on definite, consistent and nonconflicting data.”

Combining 17 individual applications about the issue, the Constitutional Court has once again concluded that 62 access blocks imposed on sendika.org news website and successive websites have violated freedom of expression and press.

Germany has rejected Turkey’s request for “mutual judicial assistance” to take testimony of Ferhat Tunç on the ground that it is against freedom of expression. Standing trial for “insulting the President”, Tunç now faces a warrant for his detention in Turkey.